<p>Hi Jimmy,</p>
<p>Nice thread. I don’t think you should dismiss agnosticism as a way to straddle the fence. It’s a valid position, and in my opinion, the most rational one. How can you be completely certain that no deity exists? Perhaps a God existing in a realm of infinite dimensions unbounded by the parameters of space and time is laughing at human inquiries into his existence/nonexistence. </p>
<p>Agnosticism, according to Wikipedia, “is the view that the truth value of certain claimsespecially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claimsis unknown or unknowable.”</p>
<p>I’m sure many agnostics also take a neutral stance on the existence of ghosts, demons, angels, and other supernatural beings.</p>
<p>That said, agnostics, like most people, dismiss the possibility of werewolves, leprechauns, fairies, and other fantasy characters, because these things are universally understood as products of folklore/myth.</p>